Rabbit Stories

Kim Shuck

106 pages, price $16.25
ISBN 978-0-9852883-8-9

Available from Small Press Distribution (SPD)

Description

Author Bio

Kim Shuck is a writer, weaver, bead artist and walker on
the crests of hills. Her artwork has shown on four continents
and her poetry has been published on three. Shuck's first
juried publication was in the En'owken Journal out of
Canada. Her first solo book of poetry, Smuggling Cherokee,
was published by Greenfield Review Press and won the Diane
Decorah award from the Native Writers' Circle of the
Americas. She lives in San Francisco with grown children,
rescue cats and a disagreeable parrot called Bond. Rumors
of resident ghosts, demi-gods or well kept secrets cannot be
verified at this time.

About the Book

Subatomic particles. String. Knots. The water in London, San Francisco, Tar Creek.
A coy
Spider. The Dance of DNA. Chestnut Man's kiss. Songs made of strawberry soda. These
are glimpses of the complex world in which a Tsalagi girl/woman lives. Named "Rabbit
Food" after a wild rose, the girl is accompanied through life by irreverent guardian and
teacher Rabbit, "a creature of trick and pleasure." Kim Shuck's collection is tenderly
constructed, finely woven in and out of Rabbit Food's lifetime as girl, young woman,
new
mother, and mature artist. Rabbit Stories winds through waters layered with dream and
memory, loops back around time with a wise/cracking humor. I couldn't put these stories
down. They're singing in me now; it feels as if the DNA in my cells has been transformed
by,
as Rabbit would say, "a joy in craft and artifact." Brava!
—Deborah A. Miranda, author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir